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MODELLING AND SIMULATING SYSTEMS

Competences:
 Explain system modelling and simulation.
 Evaluate advantages of simulation and modeling.
 Perform what-if-analysis using spreadsheet.

Introduction
A system is a set of hardware and software operating in a computer. Generally, there is many
types of systems among which we have modeling systems and simulation systems.

1. Modelling Systems
System modeling is the process of using models to conceptualize and construct systems in
business and IT development. We analyze and simulate a model to answer questions.
A model is a precise representation of how a system works. It can also abstract representation
of an object or set of objects having common characteristics.

2. Simulation systems
A simulation system is a system that imitates the real system in order to find out what
happens under different situations and condition. It involves the creation of models of a situation
(problem or possible solution) and then tests to see how the models behave. Simulations are
usually performed to avoid the expense or danger of making mistakes in the real system and have
developed to represent systems such as traffic, training pilots, etc.

3. Advantages of modelling and simulation


 Can be saver and cheaper than the real world.
 Able to test a product or system works before building it.
 Can use it to find unexpected problems.
 Able to explore ‘what if …’ questions.
 Can speed things up or slow them down to see the changes over long or short periods
of time.

4. Disadvantages of modelling and simulation


 Mistakes may be made in the programming or rules of the simulation or model.
 The cost of the simulation model can be high.
 The cost of running several different simulations may be high.
 Time may be needed to make sense of the results.
 People’s reactions to the model or simulation might not be realistic or reliable.

1. What-if-analysis using spread sheet (Case study of MS Excel)


What-if-analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes
will affect the outcome of the formulas on the worksheet.
By using what if analysis tools in excel, you can use several different set of values in one
or more formulas to explore all the various results. For example, you can do what-if-analysis to
build two budgets that each assumes a certain level of revenue. Or you can specify a result that
you want a formula to produce, and then determine what sets of values will produce that result.
Three kinds of What-if-analysis tools come with Excel: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables.
Scenarios and Data tables take sets of inputs values and determine possible results. A Data Table
works with only one or two variables, but it can accept many different values for those variables.
A scenario can have multiple variables, but it can only accommodate up to 32 values. Goal seek
works differently from Scenarios and Data Tables in that it takes a result and determines possible
input values that produce that result.

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